Handmade Wood Furniture - Find It in Vermont

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Handmade Wood Furniture - Find It in Vermont
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• It's not really easy to find it , is it? Most
  Americans think of North Carolina as the nice
  furniture capitol of the USA, but within the past
  30 decades, that has changed.
• The furniture firms people think of as being
  quintessentially American -- such as Thomasville,
  Broyhill, Ethan Allen and Lane -- no more make
  much, if any furniture in the united states.
  Instead they outsource their furniture to
  factories in China, Vietnam and other third world
  countries.

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• So where can one go to seek out authentic, high
  quality, handmade wood furniture? It turns out
  that Vermont is now considered by many to be the
  fine furniture capitol of the nation.
• By unofficial count, a few 2000 small wood
  furniture manufacturers dot the rural Vermont
  countryside, using this heavily forested
  character of our state for supply of organic
  green raw materials.

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• Vermont has traditionally been home to a vibrant
  cottage industry of people, working in all kinds
  of media, such as native hardwoods. Wood
  furniture manufacturers from all around the world
  flock to Vermont to practice their craft from the
  Green Mountain state.

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• A thriving community of woodworkers has evolved,
  bringing Vermont families who have practiced
  woodworking for centuries and newcomers who've
  brought new and different aspects of the craft
  into the area. Shoppers come from around the
  world to shop in the little furniture studios and
  showrooms belonging to those craftsmen and women.

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